Word: balding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Durante, the gentleness of Gandhi, and a stupidity that is all his own. He swaggers about the slums of Rome in what he demurely describes as "sportswear": moldy sneakers, maggoty jodhpurs, a blazing blazer apparently made from an old American flag. His head sticks up like the little bald ball on top of a flagpole. His nose and his chin all but meet in front of his mouth, as though trying to hiri-d-and well they might. His mouth is a little round hole that looks as if a big fat worm lived down there-and one does. Beneath...
What's wrong with Dion? He is anything but pathetic looking, and saying that he has a little voice is like saying President Kennedy is bald. Dion has everything a rock-'n'-roll singer needs, especially hair...
...Sarah, who has been assigned the number 11 leaps to her feet: "Sarah is cute and dirty!" The class roars. The game grows in complexity, until at length one boy is able to make the rolling pronouncement: "I am very, very, very, very, very eccentric, cute, well-liked, nice, bald...
...trade has gone up at least 200% in just the past year. "It used to be men of 50 or 60 who would come in," says Mandel. "Now it is men of 30 or 35. It's part ego and part it's just annoying to be bald." Though show biz types like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra are still leaders in the wiggy set, "ordinary people are going in for the same routine," says Mandel. In San Antonio, whose wig merchants claim the sale of more hairpieces per capita than anywhere in the U.S., most...
...critics from such bold appraisals. For years he was known beyond the Soviet bloc only in legends that told of a pianistic Paul Bunyan who played 120 concerts a year, every one of them good enough to make Beethoven weep. When he appeared at last-46 years old and bald-his mastery of the Russian technique was so impressive that he made its vices into astonishing virtues...